LOVE IN THE TIME OF CORONA

St. Ann’s Warehouse Old Dock Street & Water Street Facade

The UK-based, Colombian artist Miguel Amortegui will enliven St. Ann’s archways and light boxes with his wildly colorful paintings in an exhibit called Love in the Time of Corona. Using vibrant colors and intense brush strokes, Miguel paints the humanity and hope of the marginalized and misunderstood, and, in his own words, “…the complexity of us humans and our lives — our feelings, passions, sadness, hopes, and traumas — filling each stroke with all the colors these feelings have to offer.”

Reminiscent of Fauvism, the sparkling vitality and the fierceness of color are attractive. In addition, the simplified character depiction helps him to communicate with the public. At the same time, the clear theme sublimated into abstraction becomes the artist's unique energy, fascinating the audience at once. That way, it has both popularity and artistry.

Miguel's art works, whether photographs or drawings, are very intense.
He has keen insight, but never loses his warm sympathy and love for human being. 
Interacting with his works through any medium brings infinite happiness.

Amortegui’s work has previously appeared at St. Ann’s Warehouse indoors — and in a different medium: the theater presented photographs from his book Voices of The Jungle in a group exhibition that accompanied the Good Chance/Young Vic/National Theatre/St. Ann’s Warehouse production of The Jungle.

Photographs by:  Teddy Wolff